Featured Video: Ballet: The unlikely respite for the pain of Parkinson’s – Channel 4 News (English National Ballet ). For more information go to “Parkinson Dances” in the paragraph “Dealing with Neurological Constraints” on the Neurological Exam page.
Tutorial notes Motor Systems
Brain Section Images for visualizing pathways
This resource can alo be accessed through the page Learning Materials. It is repeated here because it is a wonderful tool for learning sensory pathways. See for a short overview of the motor pathways the Summary of Pathways. The Brain Section Images are created by a Community Teaching Assistant. In 2014, B.C. Jackson created the following learning tools for reviewing pathways during the first run of Medical Neuroscience:
Lower Motor Neuronal Control (LMNC)
- The Stretch Reflex: Animation 16.1 -Neuroscience 6th ed.
- The Flexion Reflex: Animation 16.2 – Neuroscience 6th ed.
Upper Motor Neuronal Control (UMNC)
- Extra-pyramidal and Pyramidal Tracts – Descending Tracts of the Spinal Cord | (Includes Lesions) – YouTube video by Rhesus Medicine
Modulation of Movement (MoM) by the Basal Ganglia
- 2-Minute Neuroscience: Basal Ganglia by Neuroscientifically Challenged
- 2-Minute Neuroscience: Direct Pathway of the Basal Ganglia by Neuroscientifically Challenged
- 2-Minute Neuroscience: Indirect Pathway of the Basal Ganglia by Neuroscientifically Challenged
Modulation of Movement (MoM) by the Cerebellum
- Chapter 5: Cerebellum – Neuroscience Online, University of Texas Health Science Center.
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2-Minute Neuroscience: Cerebellum by Neuroscientifically Challenged
Eye Movements
- Chapter 7: Ocular Motor System – Neuroscience Online, University of Texas Health Science Center.
- Chapter 8: Ocular Motor Control – Neuroscience Online, University of Texas Health Science Center..
- Eye movements while playing piano: YouTube video by ASL Eye Tracking.
Corticospinal Corticobulbar Pathways
- Corticospinal tract by Handwritten Tutorials
Visceral Motor System (VMS)
- 2-Minute Neuroscience: Hypothalamus & Pituitary Gland by Neuroscientifically Challenged
Micturition
- Micturition Reflex – Neural Control of Urination Animation Video by Alila Medical Media
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